02-09-2022 Free tickets for audio described performance 3rd Sept
Free tickets are available for an audio-described performance at Sadler’s Wells tomorrow, Saturday 3rd September, 7.30pm (running time roughly 1 hour) National Youth Dance Company, an inclusive dance company for young people are performing their piece Quartier Paradise by choreographer Alesandra Seutin, at Sadler’s Wells.
For the show, they are running an audio description and are offering some free tickets to young people of NYDC’s age range (13+) who are blind or visually impaired (under 16s must be accompanied by an adult and for those over 16 you’re welcome to bring a parent/guardian/friend too!) to come to the show and experience the audio description.
For more information and to request a ticket:
For more information and to request a ticket, Email Laura, Learning & Engagement Manager at Sadler’s Well’s laura.warner@sadlerswells.com or call 07729438162
(Laura will also be there on the day)!
What is an Audio Description?
An audio description is for audience members who are blind or partially sighted and uses live verbal commentary to explain visual moments of a show as it happens. During the performance, a professional Audio Describer explains what’s happening on stage. They talk through all the visual information, like sets, costumes and facial expressions. You can listen along through a discreet headset which is available to collect from the box office before the show.
Other upcoming Audio described shows at Sadler’s Wells can be found here; https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/?accessibility=audio-described
About NYDC’s piece Quartier Paradis:
Following the success of their 2021 production Speak Volumes, National Youth Dance Company (NYDC) once again collaborates with internationally renowned choreographer Alesandra Seutin. Thirty-two outstanding young dancers present a new contemporary work, exploring the relationship between movement, voice and music. Quartier Paradis dives into parallel universes where there is no apparent endgame, a place built on the fantasy of an ardent greed for a power that continuously shifts. Where ritual, memories and ancestral heritage will keep you standing; revealing the alarming reality of a society locked in a cycle of tyranny. Who will eat the apple?
